I was reading about Marin Soljacic and his research at the MIT Physics department on Wireless Energy. I found it fascinating. The key idea is that energy is transferred through magnetism in the same way electric engines are powered but that this magnetism is created say around a room in a way that only objects designed to “tune in” to this magnetism, say a cell phone, receive it and get charged while everything else in the room is impervious to this energy “floating around”. Or at least this is what I think the idea is…..

In this video I show examples of sustainable farms and explain how with only $40,000 dollars or 30,000 euros an American, European or citizen from probably any country in the world could immigrate to Uruguay, a country of the size of Spain with Northern California climate and only 3.1 million inhabitants, buy a 10 hectare farm and lead a sustainable life.

Today Apple Computer launched the iPhone and decided to drop the “computer” out of its name. I guess that as it entered the world of mobile phones computer was not the appropriate way of naming Apple. Nokia however, who kindly invited me for a panel in NYC with Om Malik and Steve Boom, from Yahoo, when they launched the new N Series phones a few months ago, told me that we should not refer to the N Series phones as phones since they were NOT phones but ….computers.

I guess this is what happens when two giants enter each other fields. So what´s next, Nokia Computer and Apple Connecting People?

I just read the news on Reuters/Yahoo that the USA entered Somalia with an AC 130 plane and bombed the village of Hayo because there was “at least one Al Qaeda suspect”. The result? Reuters sources says: “I understand there are many dead bodies and animals in the village”.
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I was reading the bio of Nancy Pelosi and what impressed me was that she is a mother of 5 kids who only really started working when her fifth child became a high school senior which happened in her late 40s and in less than 20 years became the most powerful woman in politics in the States. Yes, I know she had all sorts of connections but so do a lot of other people and frankly I think it is an amazing merit to start a career so late in life and to make it to the very, very top. She is a hope to all those women who are having kids in their 30s and think that their career is destroyed forever.

In this video I show a self propelled jelly fish stranded at the beach in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay.